I'm really impressed at what you've done, DougRPG. Even though you don't want to work on it yourself, you've managed to make good progress in a very short period of time, and you've done it without even being officially attached to the project. Let me offer you my sincere gratitude for that. It makes me very happy!

Hi Tom, good news, now I have a method to decompress and compress the graphics. I'll send the details for you later. But I'm using a compressor made by neviksti with help of several other guys. For what I read people like DarkForce, neviksti, Byuu, and other guys, made an amazing job understanding the SPC7110.

The garbage in the gate is because I changed a tile that is used in other places. There are a lot of tile reuse and I didn't change any tilemap.The "2016" that I put in that pillar has green and pink colors because seems that these tiles use a different pallete.

So with this compressor, and reading Bsnes code (the best source of information about Snes internals), I learned what needs to be done to translate the graphics. So the SPC7110 compression is not a problem anymore (hope so). Now a hacker can work the graphics in this game like any other game. Of course the SPC7110 has a particular way of working, but it's simple after you learn.

By the way, when I change the rom and load a previous save, after a reset the game shows the screen below:

What this text is saying? The game seems to work fine after that.

Like I said in my previous post I don't think I have the skills (yet) to work in a legendary game like Feoez. This game deserves a more experienced romhacker like the ones listed in this topic, but I can help with these minor stuff. Then if I find more information I'll send to you. And of course I'll send you all the details I found untill now.

Maybe someone should ask Byuu about : "But I don't know if the real chip doesn't allow this writing to $50:0000, or if it was a Byuu's decision, assuming that it's not the supposed way to work."

There is no need anymore. And I really think you can't write in $50. The SPC7110 controls the bank mapping, so probably it's not allowed to write to $50. But who knows? If you can read from $50 maybe you can write too

DougRPG... Since you're doing so well with the graphics already, perhaps you and I could work on the graphics hacking, along with FlashPV, while ddstranslation works on the menus and glitchy stuff? Given how much you've done already, I think you should be a part of the team! (ddstranslation gave me a thumbs up about you, so if you'd like to be in charge of the graphics editing, let me know.)

Hi Tom, well, if no one else is willing to work on the graphics I can take this job. But fell free to talk to more experienced romhackers. I, like you, want to see a wonderful translation for this game. So if you find a more experienced guy feel free to put him/her in the head of the graphics and I share all the information I have, ok? I'm going on vacation next week, so then I can work on this game more intensely.

If you want we can talk by email, PM, or using other method. Let me know.

What?! What this sentence has to do with changing the rom and loading an old save? I think this is related to the internal clock. I don't think this is some kind of checksum, because if I don't load an old save this message does not appear.

There is no need anymore. And I really think you can't write in $50. The SPC7110 controls the bank mapping, so probably it's not allowed to write to $50. But who knows? If you can read from $50 maybe you can write too

Thanks for your kind words. Tengai Makyou might not be the most popular RPG series out there, but I'm glad there are people out there who do appreciate the work that I've put into it, along with the work that ddstranslation, DougRPG, FlashPV, Lost Templar and byuu have put into it.

I can't wait to share this great game with people like you, who never got the chance to play it. I hope you like it when it's released. I'm sure you will.

Just popping in for moral support------this is literally one of the last SNES RPG's I haven't played and would really, really like to! The folks jumping on board are all high quality too, so I'm actually legit excited about this finally getting done!